BFI Production Fund Awards 2018 to 2019 statistics

How much, who and what the BFI invested National Lottery funding in between April 2018 to March 2019.

The numbers

Total investment: £12,869,580 

Number of films: 19

Number which were debut films: 10 

Number which were second films: 4

Our average investment: £750k

Average production budget: £3.3m

On average our investment accounted for 22% of the total production budget

The numbers for directorial debuts

Total investment in debuts: £6,222,000

Our average investment: £755k

Average production budget: £2.1m

On average our investment in debut features accounted for 35% of the total production budget

Filmmaker role
Filmmaker identifies asWritersDirectorsProducers
Female
47%
53%
53%
Underrepresented ethnicity
21%
21%
5%
LGBTQ+
26%
37%
21%
Disabled
5%
0%
0%
Percentage of debut filmmakers
Filmmaker identifies as
Female50
Underrepresented ethnicity30
LGBTQ+50
Disabled0

The films

After Love

Director-writer: Aleem Khan

Producer: Matthieu de Braconier

Ammonite

Director-writer: Francis Lee

Producers: Iain Canning, Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly

Censor

Director: Prano Bailey-Bond

Writers: Prano Bailey-Bond and Anthony Fletcher

Producer: Helen Jones

Herself (fka Owned)

Director: Phyllida Lloyd

Writers: Clare Dunne, Malcolm Campbell

Producers: Rory Gilmartin, Ed Guiney, Sharon Horgan

Limbo

Director-writer: Ben Sharrock

Producer: Angus Lamont

Little Joe

Director: Jessica Hausner

Writers: Jessica Hausner and Geraldine Bajard

Producers: Bertrand Faivre, Gerardine O’Flynn, Bruno Wagner, Martin Gschlacht, Jessica Hausner, Philippe Bober

Lynn + Lucy

Director-writer: Fyzal Boulifa

Producer: Camilla Bray

Misbehaviour

Director: Philippa Lowthorpe

Writers: Gaby Chiappe, Rebecca Frayn

Producers: Suzanne Mackie, Sarah Wheale

Molly

Director-writer: Sally Potter

Producer: Christopher Sheppard

Saint Maud

Director-writer: Rose Glass

Producers: Andrea Cornwell, Oliver Kassman

Scheme Birds (doc)

Director-writers: Ellen Fiske, Ellinor Hallin

Producers: Ruth Reid, Mario Adamson

Sorry We Missed You

Director: Ken Loach | Writer Paul Laverty

Producer: Rebecca O’Brien

Summerland

Director-writer: Jessica Swale

Producers: Guy Heeley, Adrian Sturges

Surge

Director: Aneil Karia

Writesr: Aneil Karia, Rita Kalnejais, Rupert Jones

Producers: Julia Godzinskaya, Sophie Vickers

The Last Tree

Director-writer: Shola Amoo

Producers: Myf Hopkins, Lee Thomas

The Power

Director-writer: Corinna Faith

Producers: Rob Watson, Matthew Wilkinson

The Show

Director: Mitch Jenkins | Writer: Alan Moore

Producers: Mike Elliott, Jim Mooney, Tom Brown

Two For Joy (completion)

Director-writer: Tom Beard

Producers: Emma Comley, Sadie Frost

Rocks (formerly untitled Girls film)

Director: Sarah Gavron

Writers: Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson

Producers: Faye Ward, Ameenah Ayub Allen

Footnotes

[1] The BFI Doc Society Fund supported an additional 18 documentary features.

[2] Does not include £1,017,050 from Doc Society for 18 documentary features, plus £654,629 enhancements to existing productions.

[3] Average investment for debuts does not include funding for Documentary or Completion funding – therefore the amount £755k is the average investment in eight films.

[4] Figures derived from self-declared data taken from monitoring forms.

[5] Credits in alphabetical order.